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Praeterita and Dilecta
John Ruskin
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Description for Praeterita and Dilecta
Hardcover. Num Pages: 704 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGA; DSBF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 33 x 135. Weight in Grams: 662.
To call Praeterita an autobiography is to tell only part of the truth. A book like no other, by oneof the greatest masters of English prose., it is less a narrative than the prismatic sotry of an extraordinary mind and a passionate heart told in terms of the author's aesthetic education. Ruskin was not merely the most important anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century: for his admirers - who included Proust - he was a Tolstoyan figure with the magic of an artist and the moral authority of a sage. Yet above all he was ... Read more
To call Praeterita an autobiography is to tell only part of the truth. A book like no other, by oneof the greatest masters of English prose., it is less a narrative than the prismatic sotry of an extraordinary mind and a passionate heart told in terms of the author's aesthetic education. Ruskin was not merely the most important anglophone art critic and social commentator of the late nineteenth century: for his admirers - who included Proust - he was a Tolstoyan figure with the magic of an artist and the moral authority of a sage. Yet above all he was ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
704
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857152791
SKU
V9781857152791
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About John Ruskin
Timothy Hilton, a former art critic for the Guardian and the Independent on Sunday, is the author of a two-volume biography of John Ruskin (Yale, 1985, 2000). Other works include The Pre-Raphaelites and Picasso.
Reviews for Praeterita and Dilecta
No autobiographer surpasses Ruskin in freshness and fulness of memory, nor in the power of giving interest to the apparently commonplace. The story fascinates
Sir Leslie Stephen
Sir Leslie Stephen